The girl with a popular face ran away, panting heavily, and only then did she look back.

Behind her, the four to five-meter-wide road was empty, with only rows of streetlights tirelessly emitting light. Under the streetlights, there wasn't even a child reading.

The girl with the popular face couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Then, she suspiciously looked at the small roads on both sides of the road.

The teaching building for veterinary medicine was originally quite remote because of the animals, the smell, and the noise. This road was one she had walked countless times, but now it seemed unfamiliar and dangerous.

But she was just too tired. If she had to run again now, she was afraid she would collapse on the ground.

The ground was a little dirty, so the girl leaned against the streetlight for a while, realizing that no one was coming to catch her, she stood up full of doubt.

Did she really escape like this?

The girl herself found it hard to believe.

In her memory, the sharp-eyed police officer had clearly looked at her with suspicion.

He should have chased after her like a flying man.

With an excited expression.

The mentality of taking advantage of the situation.

Could it be... she was wrong about her feelings?

The girl couldn't help but think.

Buzz.

The girl's phone rang twice, bringing her thoughts back.

"Hello." The girl answered the phone and asked softly.

"Hello, are you okay?"

"I'm out, everything's fine." The girl patted her chest and walked forward slowly.

"Oh, did you come out from there?" The boy's voice suddenly relaxed. His voice was very pleasant, making people feel happy.

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The girl's mood was indeed much happier, and she asked softly, "Have you arrived at Wulong Mountain? Have the monkeys been released?"

"Not yet, it should be soon." The boy's tone changed, "Do you have any news over there?"

At this point, the girl suddenly became nervous and said, "They're about to find me."

"Why?"

"They... they seem to have found my fingerprints, and then, they said they can compare... compare them to the fingerprint database..."

"Do you have a criminal record?" The boy's tone also became urgent, and after a pause, he explained, "What I mean is, if you don't have a criminal record, they can't find you. Fingerprint comparison has to be in the fingerprint database."

The girl shook her head hard, looked around in panic, and said, "Our school uses a fingerprint clock-in system. We have to clock in for morning exercises and classes."

"Is that so..." After a moment of silence, the boy's voice became low, "In that case, come to me. Let's go out of town for a while, see how things go, and consider coming back when there's news."

The girl hesitated and said, "Is that okay?"

"What's not okay? Do you have any other way?"

"Then... I still want to continue preparing for the postgraduate entrance examination."

"Preparing for the postgraduate entrance examination... you can study anywhere. Besides, sharpening the knife won't delay the cutting of firewood. After we go out and come back, you can study seriously, isn't that better? In any case, I'll wait for you tomorrow. If you want to come, come find me. You know where I am."

The boy's tone became a little stiff after saying a few words, and then he hung up the phone.

The girl with the popular face cried again, wiped away her tears, and then fixed her makeup a little in front of the mirror under the streetlight before heading straight for the school gate.

At the gate, she saw several security guards from the security office, holding long-handled anti-riot steel forks, patrolling in front of the gate with their chests held high.

The school's security guards originally looked particularly weak, using the word "weak" to highlight their cultural attributes.

But with the steel forks, they felt different.

Giving the old man from the Calabash Brothers a steel fork was like enhancing the image of the old man from Run Tu.

Compared to the combat power of college students and wild boars, there weren't many who could break through the school's big iron gate.

Seeing this, the girl with the popular face hesitated for a moment, then turned around to find another entrance.

Unexpectedly, there were also security guards near the entrance, so the girl with the popular face had to turn back to the dormitory area, but this time, she was seen by the security guard.

"Hey, the girl in the green clothes in front, stop." The security guard shouted and called two colleagues over.

The girl with the popular face just kept her head down and walked fast, pretending not to hear.

"Hey, you, stop."

"Police!"

"Stop!"

Everyone around them stopped unnaturally, except for the girl with the popular face, who threw her hair forward and ran.

This time, it was obvious.

And unlike a cautious technician like Jiang Yuan, several security uncles held steel forks and were followed by police officers, exceptionally brave. They caught up in a few steps and knocked the girl over with a steel fork.

The girl with the popular face was originally weak, and now she fell to the ground, her palms scraped, and when she looked around and saw her classmates watching, she couldn't help but cry.

Several male classmates, like summoned beasts, also gathered around at the first opportunity and accused, "Why are you so brutal?"

The security uncles, holding steel forks, looked sharp and asked, "Which class are you from?"

The ambition of the summoned beasts immediately regressed by eighty percent, and they protested, "Why do you care which class we're from? What you're doing is wrong in itself.""I'm a cop, I handle cases," the detective behind panted as he caught up.

He had been running all day, and at his age, he couldn't keep up with the frantic running of the young girl.

Now that he was in front of her, he took a quick look and felt that she looked a bit like the description Jiang Yuan had given over the phone. As more and more people gathered around, he didn't hesitate to pull out handcuffs and snap them onto the girl.

Once handcuffed, she became a standard criminal suspect.

Although the students nearby might not understand the difference between criminal offenses and breaking the law, seeing the handcuffs instinctively made them feel the authority of the law enforcement agency, and the chatter among them decreased.

"Disperse, this is one of the suspects in the monkey theft case," the old detective knew when to say what. At this point, he didn't bother with the usual pre-case confidentiality.

In an environment like Qinghe College, where even watching the World Cup could lead to the smashing of 800 thermos flasks, catching a pretty girl was still very dangerous.

The latter was a bit eloquent and provocative, and he would have to wait for the leaders of his team to come to his rescue. That would be truly embarrassing.

"Make way, there are still criminal suspects we haven't caught. We need to hurry back for interrogation," another detective arrived and the two of them escorted the girl out of the crowd.

The internet-famous girl had some thoughts at first, but under the pressure of the handcuffs and police uniform, she gave up.

She was too tired.

She didn't want to deal with it anymore. It was just a matter of tens of thousands of dollars. If necessary, she could just have her parents pay it back.

...

Qinghe College Police Station.

Interrogation room.

The district criminal police borrowed the police station's interrogation room so that they could quickly interrogate the suspect before going to arrest another person.

The two detectives made some preparations and planned to conduct a surprise interrogation.

The old detective's three tricks of checking, arranging, and investigating were not as effective in recent years, as there were more non-contact crimes, and ordinary people had learned a thing or two from TV and movies.

But for this inexperienced girl, any trick would work.

The old detective didn't waste time and went straight to the process, asking in a serious tone, "Name!"

"Guo Yunxia. You've all seen our IDs..."

"Age."

"21."

...

After going through the process, Guo Yunxia gradually fell silent.

The oppressive atmosphere of the interrogation, which had been formed over the years, was something that ordinary people found hard to bear.

Many old detectives liked to dig up cases from habitual thieves, especially during the era of pre-trial teams, where one of the important tasks of the pre-trial officers was to uncover accumulated cases, and they paid particular attention to repeat offenders.

Repeat offenders or habitual thieves were familiar with the interrogation atmosphere and generally had a strong ability to withstand pressure, which allowed them to cover up the case and not be exposed by the interrogating police.

For urban white-collar workers, no matter how glib or full of lies they were, after sitting in a windowless, timeless room for a day, they would basically say whatever was asked of them.

Guo Yunxia was only brought in for urgent interrogation because she had another accomplice. Otherwise, if she was left to stew for a while, she would have started to reveal the problem herself.

In fact, although the interrogating police did not put too much pressure on her, Guo Yunxia began to show signs of not being able to bear it.

When asked about the whereabouts of her boyfriend, Guo Yunxia shouted, "I can handle it on my own, it's just four monkeys! Do you have to pressure people like this?"

The detective had long known about her family situation and said with a serious tone, "This is 600,000 yuan. The value of the case is so high that it can't be resolved just by paying money."

"Even if..." Guo Yunxia stopped speaking here, suddenly stared wide-eyed, "Extortion? What 600,000? These are monkeys, not giant pandas."

"The Henghe monkeys are now selling for at least 150,000. Including shipping and transaction costs, it's about 160,000," the detective said, seeing through her expression. "If you can compensate for this money, the court will consider a lighter sentence."

Guo Yunxia's eyes bulged, "Are you kidding me? Where are monkeys that expensive?"

"The price has gone up," the detective said calmly.

"Where would there be such a price increase?"

"It's like this," the detective answered plainly, "Now you understand why so many people came out to catch you, right? Your case is the highest theft amount I've received this year, and it's likely to be sentenced to more than 7 years."

In terms of the sentence, he exaggerated a bit. For first-time offenders, especially in cases where they were clearly unaware, the sentence is usually reduced if the woman is an accomplice.

However, the probability of coming out within one or two years is also very low.

Guo Yunxia's body involuntarily trembled.

For a 21-year-old girl who had successfully completed her undergraduate studies and was considering whether to take the postgraduate entrance exam or the civil service exam, a 7-year sentence was something she couldn't even bear to think about.

She had even been struggling with the issue of a three-year service period or a five-year service period before.

"I... I'm not a thief. I just felt sorry for those monkeys..." Guo Yunxia argued.

"And then?"

"And then, we decided to let them go."

"Who are 'we'..." The detective focused and quickly wrote down.

"I... I and Wei, Liu Wei.""Liu Wei, what is he to you?"

"My boyfriend."

"So, it was you and Liu Wei who stole the monkey together?"

Guo Yunxia hesitated for a moment before saying, "We didn't steal it; we just decided to set it free."

"Who suggested stealing the monkey?" the criminal investigator pressed.

If it was Guo Yunxia's decision, then she would be the principal offender in this case, with her boyfriend as an accessory.

The difference between principal and accessory could mean several years' difference in sentencing.

Of course, it was also possible that they were both principal offenders.

At this point, Guo Yunxia seemed to have come to a realization and said in a low voice, "It was Liu Wei who suggested that we could set them free."

"If the decision was to set them free, why did you put the monkey in a suitcase?"

"Because, because Liu Wei said the monkeys wouldn't survive on the hill behind the school and would eventually be caught again. They had to be released into a real mountain, so we packed them up, planning to release them into Wulong Mountain."

At this time, the interrogating officer was pretty sure that Guo Yunxia had been deceived.

Following this line of thought, he asked, "Tell me about the specific process of the theft?"

"We went to the lab, caught the monkeys, injected them with a sedative, put them in a sack, and then into a suitcase..."

"Explain in detail how you opened the door and caught the monkeys."

The police officer's commands became more direct, and as Guo Wei Xia spoke, she began to cry.

After she had cried enough, the interrogating officer asked a series of questions before saying, "You claim you didn't know the value of the monkeys beforehand. Now that you know, do you think your boyfriend was aware?"

Guo Yunxia was stunned, then started crying again.

At this moment, outside the interrogation room in the monitoring room, Jiang Yuan and the principal of Qinghe College were also watching the interrogation.

The principal looked helplessly at the screen, his mind seemingly preoccupied with thoughts.

Jiang Yuan looked at him and suddenly asked curiously, "There shouldn't be any Rhesus monkeys in Wulong Mountain, right?"

He had spent some time in Wulong Mountain and had learned about the species there.

The principal gave a heavy "Hmm" and said, "The dominant species of monkey on Wulong Mountain is the Tibetan macaque, and one of its subspecies is the monkey from Emei Mountain, which is larger in size and more aggressive in nature..."

"So even if the Rhesus monkeys were released there, they wouldn't survive well, right?"

"They would probably be killed," the principal sighed with a sense of shame, "Our school's education is still lacking."